The SEC has authorized the distribution of approximately $16.13 million from the Fair Fund established in its prior enforcement matter involving BMW AG, BMW of North America, LLC, and BMW US Capital, LLC. Although the order does not impose new liability, it marks a consequential step in the life cycle of the case: moving collected funds out of the government’s…
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The Fifth Circuit has affirmed the convictions of former Boston Heart Diagnostics executives and sales representatives in a criminal Anti-Kickback Statute case arising from what prosecutors described as a sham management-services organization structure used to funnel payments to physicians in exchange for referrals. The decision in United States v. Theiler leaves intact conspiracy convictions tied to a broader healthcare-billing and…
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At a time when virtually every major AI legal research product is moving toward delivering a single, synthesized answer to your research question, a new product launching today is based on the premise that many litigators want something that sounds almost old school – just the cases.Align Research, released to general availability this morning by the litigation technology…
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When law school AI policies have made news, it has usually been because they were controversial. UC Berkeley School of Law’s restrictive policy, which I wrote about in May, drew national attention for barring generative AI from nearly every stage of producing graded work.But a new website launched by Andrew Perlman, dean of Suffolk University Law School, reveals…
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One of the less glamorous but increasingly important legal developments is not a ruling, verdict, or settlement at all: it is the difficulty of verifying what actually counts as “today’s” top legal news in a fragmented, access-restricted media environment.

In this instance, the available reporting pointed to several significant U.S. legal stories circulating in recent days, including a major federal-court…
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We welcome back Brad Blickstein, CEO at Blickstein Group, to discuss how private equity principles may provide law firms with an alternative approach to profitability, governance, and even long-term growth. Blickstein’s new book, WWPED: What Would Private Equity Do? was written to walk firms through how treating topics like pricing, technology, talent, and client relationships as part of…
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A federal appeals court has refused to let the Trump administration implement an executive order affecting mail-in voting while the case moves forward, leaving in place a district court ruling that found the challenged action likely exceeded presidential authority. The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit preserves a preliminary injunction entered by U.S. District Judge…
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has voided a proposed settlement between Donald Trump and the IRS, concluding that the agreement was tainted by an improper effort to leverage a massive damages suit for personal benefit rather than a legitimate litigation resolution. In the same ruling, the court referred lawyers on both sides to disciplinary authorities, turning what might have…
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